The CEO's Regret: Darling, Don’t Leave Me novel Chapter 132

Chapter 96: Mistakes or Learnings?-2

I tilt my head slightly.

“Don’t you think?”

Alexander bites his lower lip for a second. He watches me… As if he were evaluating my reaction.

Then it straightens up.

“Do you know what I think of life?” he says finally.

He crosses his arms.

“I feel that sometimes, when we make mistakes… God gives us the opportunity to learn from them.”

His gaze returns to Ethan’s flowers on my desk.

Then come back to me.

“And what life does,” he continues, “is to put that same situation back in front of us.”

Make a small circular gesture with his hand.

“The same mistake. To see if we learned.”

The silence in my office becomes heavy.

Alexander holds my gaze as he finishes his idea.

“And if we fall again,” he says slowly, “it’s like tripping over the same stone twice.”

His lips curl slightly.

“It’s repeating a vicious circle.”

I feel something inside me harden. Because I understand exactly what he’s trying to do.

He’s trying to plant a doubt… A guilt, as if this morning… as if Ethan… It was simply a test that I am destined to fail.

I look at him for a few more seconds, and then I respond in a calm voice.

“Or,” I say slowly, “maybe life doesn’t put the same mistake in front of it.”

Alexander raises an eyebrow.

I lean just forward.

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“Maybe it puts the same person… to see if this time we are able to see them differently.

The silence that follows between us is much more tense than the previous one.

Alexander looks at me with that expression that mixes curiosity and judgment.

As if I were waiting for me to finish saying what I started.

I hold his gaze. I’m not angry.

But I am very aware of something: this conversation stopped being comfortable several minutes

ago.

I take a breath calmly before speaking.

“Perhaps,” I say slowly, “God doesn’t put the same error in front of us.

Alexander says nothing.

Just wait.

“Maybe what it does is allow us to see what we didn’t see before.

My fingers rest on the desk, near the card Ethan sent.

“Maybe it makes us realize that we made mistakes.”

I look up at him again.

“And that we can improve.”

Alexander arches an eyebrow.

“Improve for whom?” he asks.

“Now you are justifying your sadness.”

The silence that follows is uncomfortable. Tense… The office looks smaller than it was a few minutes ago. I look at him, I don’t answer right away.

‘Cause I know that whatever I say now… I could escalate this conversation even further.

Alexander waits a few seconds, but when I don’t speak, he sighs.

It straightens out.

“Well,” he says finally.

He turns away from the desk.

“It’s not my place to tell you what to do with your life”

His words sound polite, but the tone is not so polite.

He walks to the door of my office.

He pauses for a second before opening it.

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“I just hope,” he says without looking directly at me, “that this time you don’t end up paying the price again.”

He opens the door, and leaves. The door closes behind him.

Silence returns to the office, I sit in my chair, looking at the flowers on the desk.

Alexander’s red roses. And the bouquet Ethan sent this morning.

I slowly take the card back between my fingers.

I reread it. And although Alexander’s words still resonate in some corner of my head…

There’s something inside me that still feels clear.

Not everything that comes back… Come back to do damage.

Sometimes… Just come back to see if we know how to do better this time.